SB 92, introduced by Senator Boots, allows a licensed land surveyor to enter on private land to conduct a survey if the surveyor mails notice by ordinary mail at least five days in advance. The notice has to let the landowner know that the landowner is entitled to compensation for damage caused by the surveyor by reason of the entry on the land.
There is a procedure set forth about compensation for the damage. The interesting part to me is that, if the parties can’t agree on proper compensation, they each get to nominate a disinterested party who lives in the county and then the tie-breaking vote is the county agricultural extension educator of the county in which the land or water is located.
No doubt introduced after a dispute survey. Gosh, I loved doing those. The one time I was shot at in my life, I was surveying a property line dispute job, in the Cleveland area.
Any more, the damage caused by a surveyor is negligible, unless the guy is a complete oaf. Used to be that surveyors had to cut all the brush down the line in order to get line of sight. With today’s equipment, you don’t have to set up on the property line in order to get shots down it. You can set up anywhere there is clear sight and shoot it in. That is an interesting arrangement, though.
Yeah, the bill made me think of the Hatfields and McCoys. (Even though their feud didn’t involve, so far as I know, a land dispute.)